Obama: World's people must resist hatred, racism

[babylonsister]

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Obama: World's people must resist hatred, racism

By NATASHA METZLER


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama paid tribute Thursday to the memory of Jews murdered in the Holocaust and said it is the duty of the living all over the world to make certain there will be no more atrocities.

Speaking at a Holocaust Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, Obama warned against what he called the dangers of silence. Every day, he said, people should fight the impulse to turn away when scenes of horror unfold across the world. He called for people to embrace a "habit of empathy."

"We know," the president said, "that evil has to run its course on earth."

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Obama called it a grim irony that modern tools were used for barbaric savagery: "Science that can heal, used to kill. Education that can enlighten, used to rationalize away basic moral impulses."

Obama said part of the responsibility for the Holocaust rests with people who "accepted the assigned role of bystander."

He also cited stories of hope, in places from Northern Ireland to Rwanda, where vicious conflict has given way to forgiveness.

"Our fellow citizens of the world, showing us how to make the journey from oppression to survival, from witness to resistance, and ultimately to reconciliation," Obama noted. "That is what we mean when we say, `Never again.' "

[midnight]

1. Very nice goal. Let's make it happen. Enough of poverty, hate,

greed, and suffering.

[babylonsister]

2. I agree. I missed this speech today, but his words do sing. It'd

be nice if we could all take them to heart.

[Cha]

3. So many instances are

teachihg moments with President Obama.

[cooolandrew]

4. His methods may not be utopian but every indicator is that he sides with peace over war.>

This is a very powerful speech in it's content that more people must get to hear. He is the President the world has waited for and probably smarter than we could ever of imagined.

[SamCooke]

5. I just saw this speech on CSPAN2, and I already want to see it again

I have to get DVR. That speech was amazing.

[Forkboy]

6. Nice to hear someone talk about these things and actually mean it.

It's probably a goal that will never be realized, human nature being what it is, but it's a goal we should never stop striving for regardless.